Accommodation and Related Risk Factors Associated with Myopia Progression and Their Interaction with Treatment in COMET Children

Abstract

The results support the COMET rationale (i.e., a role for retinal defocus in myopia progression). In clinical practice in the United States children with large lags of accommodation and near esophoria often are prescribed PALs or bifocals to improve visual performance. Results of this study suggest that such children, if myopic, may have an additional benefit of slowed progression of myopia.